SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Observing Program
09/20/2021	Gary Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	9.5	0	Spectroscopy of Massive Stars, Spectrograph appears to be working nominally after summer shutdown. FLI ccd cooled to -37C running TEC at about 97% power. With external air temp ~17C, focus settings were Fiber plate (-515), Spectrum (-3650), Telescope (151000). Found track rates of 15.065, +0.011 to be reasonably good before autoguiding, but autoguiding was excellent and system stable although I observed and tracked a single target all night.
09/18/2021	Keefe Kamp	FIT	Caballero, Gokuldass	CCD, Spec	0	12	Planed Be photometric and Spectroscopic observations however with a 50% chance of rain tonight. decided not to open.
09/16/2021	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Brian Herbster	CCD	0	10	Since dome control UPS appears to have failed, Gary suggested us not to open the dome if precipitation threat within 24 hours. Precipitation threat tonight and tomorrow, so we could not open the dome.
09/16/2021	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	None	ARC CCD	8.5	1	Eclipsing binary stars. Imaging sequence froze with ccd computer stuck at 100% exposure and tele computer unable to take exposure; after finding the instructions for resetting things on the camera computer I lost about half an hour. Another half hour was lost at the end of the night as tracking failed at about HA 3:30 and I missed the last half of eclipse egress.
09/15/2021	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Andy Baran, Brian Herbster, Johnathan Hodge	CCD	10	0	Wide binary stars observation forgyrochronology, and subdwarf B star observation for pulsation search. The focus was okay if we do not touch it (we used B filter to set the focus). The good focus position changes when we move focus even a little bit, and it requires long time to set the focus again.
09/13/2021	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Andy Baran, Carina Shanahan	CCD	10	0	Searching star rotation period for gyrochronology, subdwarf B star observation. It was difficult to find the right focus. We obtain a good focus at 110000, but I am not sure this value still gives up good focus tomorrow night.
09/12/2021	Ken Rumstay	VSU	None	CCD camera	0	9	Personal stupidity. I failed to realize that light wasn't getting to the camera because the spectrograph was in the way.
09/11/2021	Tomomi Otani	ERAU	Johnathan Hodge,	CCD	0	9	We could not connect to the computer PC. Peter is currently helping us to check this issue.
07/04/2021	XIANMING HAN	Butler Univ	none	none	0	8	observatory was shut down for the season ahead of schedule.
06/30/2021	Gary Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	0	7	Rain early then overcast skies. Monsoon weather set in.
06/28/2021	Samalka Anandagoda	Clemson University	Kyle Pellegrin, Dr. Hartmann	ARC CCD	0	7	Didn't open the dome due to clouds
06/26/2021	Martha Leake	Valdosta State University	none	ARC camera	7.3	0	Asteroid photometry for light curve and M27. Finished transfer before KPNO IT work today (27th, Sunday)